TIL: dopamine, pain & momentum

Battling the dopamine addiction wars is not an easy job.

Social media, fast food, sugar, mobile games.

It’s all around us.

Life can get really bad really fast if you start consuming mindlessly any of those.

Getting into a flow state is not an easy job either.

But you can easily get into one by consuming any of those.

If you’ve been using social media for a decade, your mind has become accustomed to being in a state of flow for long periods every day.

You’ve taught your brain that this is what reality looks like.

No pain

Many rewards

Extremely interesting

Infinite possibilities

That’s the reality for most social media users while they are scrolling on their feeds.

To make things worse, Instagram is not the only thing that can damage your dopamine system.

Fast food, sugar, mobile games. Cool.

What about casinos, partying, alcohol, PC gaming, getting laid, weed, darts, shisha?

The world is full of distractions and our job is to stay focused on the few things that actually matter to us. 

Stay focused.

THINGS I’VE LEARNED

1.
DOPAMINE

Dopamine is not about the pursuit of happiness,

it is about the happiness of pursuit. 

– Dr. Robert Sapolsky

2.
What pain do you want in life

No one can escape the pain.

Regardless of what our background and goals look like, life gets easier when we accept that pain is part of life.

And that can be our competitive advantage.

You can decide your pain.

Being broke is hard.

Getting successful is hard.

You can decide your hard.

You can decide your pain.

THIS WEEK’S HACK

Start your day by creating momentum.

Anti-dopamine momentum.

Wash face, lock phone in another room, start working.

Take the first break to drink water or eat breakfast.

After experimenting with dozens of different morning routines over the last decade, this feels the best so far.

Minimal. Effective. Easy to follow.

In case you decide to try something similar for a week, I’d love to hear about your experience.

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